In professional cycling, Greg Lemond told Play the Game, the worst-case doping scenarios often come true

The International Cycling Union (UCI) is facing allegations that it accepted a payment of USD 3 million to endorse the place of the ‘keirin’ as one of cycling’s Olympic events, a claim the world governing body for cycling vehemently denies.

What do you get if you accuse an all-American sporting hero and cancer survivor of cheating? Job satisfaction, says LA Confidential author David Walsh.

A new book highlights the symbiosis of cycling and doping and the seriousness of the connection.

Former Danish cyclist Jesper Skibby has admitted to doping during his professional career in the 1990’s. The confession came in an autobiography published last week. Skibby wants to stop living on a lie and in the book he reveals all about his doping use but does not say who supplied the drugs and helped him avoid testing positive.

The beleaguered cycling sport is breaking new paths in its attempts to combat doping and restore public trust. The German Cycling Federation, BDR, has decided that all professional cyclists riding for German teams must submit to a control system using blood profiles by 2007. Meanwhile Team CSC has signed up a Danish anti-doping expert to set up a new anti-doping regime.

The Spanish authorities owe the world an explanation for how it has handled the publication of information about the investigation of the blood doping scheme in Spain. So says Jens Evald, chairman of Anti-Doping Denmark, who is deeply concerned about the legal rights of the cyclists named in the investigation.

Knowledge bank: Have the attitudes to and the use of performance enhancing drugs amongst professional cyclists changed since 1998?